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Role Group Leader / Principal Research Fellow
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major...
Professor David Burgner is a practising paediatric infectious diseases physician, leads the Inflammatory Origins Group and co-leads the LifeCourse longitudinal observational cohorts initiative at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He holds major national and international clinical / research positions including leadership roles in ASID, ESPID, WSPID and is an AAHMS fellow.

Professor Burgner is an international authority on understanding the susceptibility and consequences to childhood infection and inflammation, particularly in relation to the development of cardiometabolic disease risk. He is an internationally recognised clinical and scientific leader in Kawasaki disease and has made major scientific, clinical and policy contributions to the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly the hyperinflammatory post-infectious syndrome (known as PIMS-TS or MIS-C) in children.

Top Publications

  • McCloskey, K, Vuillermin, P, Carlin, JB, Skilton, MR, Raitakari, O, Jachno, K, Cheung, M, Burgner, DP, Ponsonby, A-L. Early-Life Markers of Atherosclerosis Using Aortic and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: An Assessment of Methods to Account for Child Size. Journal for Vascular Ultrasound 39(3) : 119 -126 2015
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  • James, R, Burgner, D. Orange-brown chromonychia in Kawasaki disease.. Arch Dis Child 100(9) : 872 2015
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  • Walsh, P, Manners, PJ, Vercoe, J, Burgner, D, Murray, KJ. Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in children: nine years' experience at a statewide tertiary paediatric rheumatology referral centre.. Rheumatology (Oxford) 54(9) : 1688 -1691 2015
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  • Vuillermin, P, Saffery, R, Allen, KJ, Carlin, JB, Tang, MLK, Ranganathan, S, Burgner, D, Dwyer, T, Collier, F, Jachno, K, et al. Cohort Profile: The Barwon Infant Study.. Int J Epidemiol 44(4) : 1148 -1160 2015
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  • Juonala, M, Cheung, MMH, Sabin, MA, Burgner, D, Skilton, MR, Kähönen, M, Hutri-Kähönen, N, Lehtimäki, T, Jula, A, Laitinen, T, et al. Effect of birth weight on life-course blood pressure levels among children born premature: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study.. J Hypertens 33(8) : 1542 -1548 2015
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